As we get closer to crowning an eventual opponent for Barack Obama, and college football’s bowl season begins, we continue our weekly rankings in the Presidential Championship Series. Our ratings are based on a complicated mathematical formula, calculated on the back of a Burger King receipt, and entered into a Commodore 64 computer. Here are the rankings for week three:

The college football season is over, and while we wait for the 1001 bowl games to begin, our Presidential Championship Series uses the same formula as college football to rank the contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination.

As college football nears the end of its season, there is only one other American pastime that engulfs the country in endless furious debate about who is the best – presidential politics.

For years, sportswriters, fans and coaches were mired in an unending morass trying to determine who was the “true champion” of college football, until a group of geniuses created the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Since 1998, this combination of experts, computers and polls have settled the question “Who should play for the Championship?” The BCS ranks the top teams on the college gridiron every year, ensuring that there will be one true champion in football.